{"conversationCode":"020-049","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-049","startDateTime":"1972-02-07T20:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-07T21:44:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Feb-1972","startTime":"3:44 PM","endDate":"7-Feb-1972","endTime":"4:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On February 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:44 pm and 4:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-049 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 20-49\n\nDate: February 7, 1972\n\nTime: Unknown between 3:44 and 4:44 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 319-13]\n\n     Request for a call to Ronald L. Ziegler","filename":["020-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:57:39","tapeEnd":"01:57:45","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"020-048","nextCode":"020-050","transcript":[{"start":2.36,"end":3.32,"text":"Mr. Ziegler, please."},{"start":3.34,"end":4.3,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection with his Press Secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief exchange served purely administrative purposes to initiate official communication between the President and a key member of his staff. No further substantive policy discussions were recorded during this brief request.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House operations","Presidential communication","Press Secretary"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:56:09.934Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-operations","presidential-communication","press-secretary"],"audioDurationSec":5,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-049.mp3","bytes":127894,"durationSec":5.26,"bitrate":194470,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-049","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}